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Before the linkfest, let me share some exciting news. Starting from tomorrow, and throughout the week, I’ll be posting augmented reality predictions for 2010 from top AR luminaries. But wait, there’s more – I’m hoping to harness wisdom of the very smart crowds reading this blog, by putting on a survey were you can vote for your favorite predictions. Hope to see you tomorrow!

And now, as usual, the weekly linkfest:

The first AR DevCamp was held yesterday. Thomas Wrobel (can I say our very own Thomas Wrobel?) had an FAQ prepared for the occasion, about the AR wave initiative.

On the mobile browsers front – Layar 3.0 is out (also see AugmentedPlanet’s review). I should have really dedicated a post for it. In a nutshell, this latest version, and the presented use-cases are really making Layar much more than just a “browser”. You can create augmented tours, games, and city scapes which is a huge step over just showing the “closest” x.

Augment Pro review of Presselite’s Twitter-360, a browser like app that shows you nearby tweets from your friends

And AcrossAir is behind “Le Bar Guide” an application created for beer label Stella Artois that lets you find closest bars (serving that beer).

if only we, who know the difference between good and crap AR, can be more vocal – if we can start saying what we mean and not be afraid of pissing off the people who make this garbage … maybe we’ll actually save this industry from what happened to Virtual Reality.

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As for Layer, that’s getting verrry impressive release.
A bit too impressive in a way. With so many nice features and ability’s being given by one company doing an end-to-end service, its harder to argue the superiority of having a free-for-all distributed system like the internet itself is ;)
Still, great work by the Layer team!

Incidently, regarding my talk, I appolgise again for my connection going. Any extra questions, feel free to ask them to me direct, or post them on the wiki’s faq;http://arwave.wiki.zoho.com/FAQ.html
(just add your question as a comment and I’ll update the list)